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Friday, November 02, 2012

I Didn't Say It ....

Tina Fey, on Representatives Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock,
and all those Republicans who have an opinion on rape:

“I wish we could have an
honest and respectful dialogue about these complicated issues, but it seems
like we can’t, right now. And if I have to listen to one more grey-faced man
with a two dollar haircut explain to me what rape is, I'm gonna lose my mind. I
watch these guys, and I'm like, 'What is happening? Am I a secretary on Mad
Men?'"

No, you’re just watching the GOP back-step about fifty years
into oblivion.

Jan Pauls, a Kansas state representative, and Democrat,
on her rejection of the national party's endorsement of marriage equality:

"The Democratic national
platforms have never been that important in local or state politics. We’re a
little different here. I think most Kansans' concerns are not that the
homosexuals want equal rights but superior rights. That’s what makes this issue
so difficult."

Superior rights.

My desire to be treated like every other &%$#ing
American is a superior right?

Wow. And from a Democrat, no less, although one from Kansas—which,
sorry to say, people from Kansas—doesn’t say a lot.

It just proves that even in the DNC we have a few asshats on
the loose.

Chris Christie, New Jersey governor,
on President Obama and Hurricane Sandy:

"I was on the phone at
midnight again last night with the president. He has expedited the designation
of New Jersey as a major disaster area. I was on the phone with FEMA at 2 a.m.
this morning to answer the questions they needed answered to get that
designation. The president has been outstanding in this. The folks at FEMA and
his folks have been excellent. ...[T] he President has been all over this and
he deserves great credit. [He] told me to call him if I needed anything and he
absolutely means it, and it’s been very good working with the President and his
administration.”

Nice to see that politics is not [really] at play here.

Nice to see Christie step up and applaud the president for
his actions rather than try and take him down a peg.

But, I can’t help but shake the itch in my brain, that
Christie is doing this so he can run for president in 2016.

Linda Lingle, former Hawaii
governor and current GOP Senate candidate, on marriage equality in a debate
last week with Democrat opponent Mazie Keiko Hirono:

"Well this is a question
that I have spent an awful lot of time on as governor. And I know people have
very strong feelings on both sides. It's something that I've wrestled with,
President Obama has wrestled with it. I would certainly support putting this
constitutional amendment on the ballot. Personally, I believe that marriage is
between a man and a woman. But I also think the people of Hawaii should be able
to make that decision."

Yes, Obama has wrestled with it, but he’s stopped wrestling
and come down on the side of equality. Too bad Lingle is so desperate to stay
in political office, with all those benefits and healthcare just waiting, to
actually take a stand.

Mazie Keiko Hirono, in
response:

"We all remember when as governor she vetoed the civil
unions bill and in doing so, before she vetoed it, she invited members of the
LGBT leadership to join her. And they thought that she was going to sign that
bill into law. And instead, right in front of them, the very group that had
worked so hard to pass this legislation, she vetoed that bill. I thought that
was extremely insensitive and disrespectful of their position."

Suh-nap.

Say goodnight Lingle, because The Gays have a long memory
and don’t often forget those wingnuts like you who’ve treated us so shabbily.

“We’re now about $400,000 away from having on
hand what we need to have, so this last push is critically important. We
continue to raise dollars, and the interest in this question continues — more
and more people are becoming interested in this, so I appreciate your coverage
on it. And hopefully with your coverage of what you’re doing and what the
campaign we’ll be able to get the word out and rally people to this cause.”

And if the cause is simple
equality, something we all say we deserve, then Marylanders should vote accordingly
on Tuesday.

Three weeks ago, Maryland Question 6 was a shoe in, now it's evenly split. The anti marriage foes have been running commercials that have been debunked as myth. A few very anti-marriage black ministers held. Press conference about ten days ago where one of the ministers said that the bible says that gay people will be struck down dead, and hs cronies all sat there, nodding their heads in agreement and called out he was speaking the truth. A couple days later, when the Baltimore Sun questioned the organizer of the event about the statement, he denied that someone said that. When the paper pointed out that he was sitting next to the minister when the statement was said, and that he agreed with it, the interviewee said that he would have to review the video. This is the type of crp working against us.